Dictionary Definition
low adj
1 less than normal in degree or intensity or
amount; "low prices"; "the reservoire is low" [ant: high]
2 literal meanings; being at or having a
relatively small elevation or upward extension; "low ceilings";
"low clouds"; "low hills"; "the sun is low"; "low furniture"; "a
low bow" [ant: high]
3 very low in volume; "a low murmur"; "the
low-toned murmur of the surf" [syn: low-toned]
4 unrefined in character; "low comedy"
5 used of sounds and voices; low in pitch or
frequency [syn: low-pitched]
[ant: high]
6 of the most contemptible kind; "abject
cowardice"; "a low stunt to pull"; "a low-down sneak"; "his
miserable treatment of his family"; "You miserable skunk!"; "a
scummy rabble"; "a scurvy trick" [syn: abject, low-down, miserable, scummy, scurvy]
7 low or inferior in station or quality; "a
humble cottage"; "a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the
people"; "small beginnings" [syn: humble, lowly, modest, small]
8 no longer sufficient; "supplies are low"; "our
funds are depleted" [syn: depleted]
9 subdued or brought low in condition or status;
"brought low"; "a broken man"; "his broken spirit" [syn: broken, crushed, humbled, humiliated]
10 low in spirits; "lonely and blue in a strange
city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and
resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat";
"feeling discouraged and downhearted" [syn: blue, depressed, dispirited, down(p), downcast, downhearted, down in
the mouth, low-spirited]
11 being the gear producing the lowest drive
speed; "use first gear on steep hills" [syn: first]
Noun
1 an air mass of lower pressure; often brings
precipitation; "a low moved in over night bringing sleet and snow"
[syn: low
pressure, depression]
2 British political cartoonist (born in New
Zealand) who created the character Colonel Blimp (1891-1963) [syn:
David
Low, Sir David
Low,
Sir David Alexander Cecil Low]
3 a low level or position or degree; "the stock
market fell to a new low" [ant: high]
4 the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box
of a motor vehicle; used to start a car moving [syn: first gear,
first, low gear] adv :
in a low position; near the ground; "the branches hung low" v :
make a low noise, characteristic of bovines [syn: moo]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /loʊ/
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- Rhymes with: -əʊ
Etymology 1
lāhAdjective
en-adj erAntonyms
- (in a position comparatively close to the ground): high
Translations
in a position comparatively close to the ground
- Armenian: ցածրահասակ (tsatzrahasak)
- Catalan: baix , baixa
- Chinese: 低
- Dutch: laag, lage
- Esperanto: malalta
- Finnish: alhainen
- French: bas , basse
- German: niedrig
- Guarani: karape
- Ido: basa
- Interlingua: basse
- Italian: basso , bassa
- Japanese: 低い (ひくい, hikui)
- Korean: 낮다 (najda, nat-)
- Kurdish: nizm,
- Portuguese: baixo , baixa
- Rohingya: niso
- Romanian: jos , joasă
- Russian: низкий (nízkij)
- Serbian: nizak , niska , nisko
- Sicilian: vasciu , vascia
- Spanish: bajo , baja
- Swedish: låg
- Turkish: alçak
small height
depressed, sad
- Finnish: alakuloinen
- Kurdish: bêmad
- Swedish: nere
Related terms
Verb
- To moo.
- The cattle were lowing.
Translations
See mooAnagrams
Extensive Definition
Low may refer to:
- Low (complexity), a relationship between complexity classes in computational complexity theory
- Low Island (disambiguation)
- Low pressure area, a region where the atmospheric pressure is lowest with relation to the surrounding area
- Low, Quebec, a township in Canada
In music:
- Low (album), a 1977 album by David Bowie
- Low (band), a rock band
- Low (Testament album), a 1994 album by the thrash metal band Testament
- "Low" (Kelly Clarkson song), a song by pop singer Kelly Clarkson
- "Low" (Foo Fighters song), a song by the rock band Foo Fighters
- "Low" (Flo-Rida song), a song by Flo-Rida featuring T-Pain
- "Low", a song from the album Kerosene Hat by the band Cracker
- "Low", a song from the album Out of Time by the band R.E.M.
- "Low", a song from the 2007 album Young Modern by the band Silverchair
- "Low", a song from the 2005 album X&Y by the band Coldplay
- Abiel Abbot Low, U.S. entrepreneur and philanthropist
- Albert Peter Low, Canadian geologist
- Archibald Low, British scientist and inventor
- Sir David Alexander Cecil Low, New Zealand-born political cartoonist
- Edward Low, notorious pirate during the Golden Age of Piracy
- George Michael Low, NASA administrator
- G. David Low, U.S. astronaut
- Rochelle Low, Canadian field hockey player
- Seth Low, U.S. educator and politician
See also
low in German: Low
low in Spanish: Low
low in French: Low
low in Italian: LOW
low in Dutch: Low
low in Japanese: ロウ
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Doric,
Hydromatic, a la
sourdine, abject,
abominable, accented, against, ailing, air mass, alveolar, anticyclone, apical, apico-alveolar,
apico-dental, arrant,
articulated, asking
price, assimilated,
atrocious, automatic
transmission, back,
bad, barbaric, barbarous, barely audible,
baritone, bark, barytone, base, base-minded, baseborn, bass, bawl, bay, bearish prices, beggared, beggarly, bell, bellow, below the salt, bid
price, bilabial,
black, blamable, blameworthy, blare, blat, blate, bleat, book value, boom, bottoming out, bowed-down,
bray, brief, broad, broke, budget, bullish prices, business
cycle, business fluctuations, bust, cacophonous, cacuminal, call, call price, cast down,
caterwaul, central, cerebral, cheap, checked, cheesy, close, closing price, clumsy, coarse, cockney, cogwheel, cold front, cold
sector, common, commonplace, compact, compendious, con, concise, consonant, consonantal, contemptible, continuant, contralto, cooling off,
couchant, crass, criminal, crisis, crouched, crude, crummy, cry, cursory, curt, curtal, curtate, cyclone, damnable, dark, dashed, debased, decline, decrescendo, decurtate, deep, deep-echoing, deep-pitched,
deep-toned, deepmouthed, degraded, dejected, demeaning, dental, depraved, depressed, depression, depthless, despaired of,
despairing, despicable, despondent, desponding, destitute, differential, differential
gear, dim, dimly, dirty, disadvantaged, disappointed, disapprobatory, disapproving, discontented, discouraged, disenchanted, disgraceful, disgruntled, disgusting, disheartened, disillusioned, dispirited, displeased, dissatisfied, dissenting, dissimilated, distant, doggerel, done for, donsie, dorsal, down, downcast, downhearted, downthrown, downturn, drooping, droopy, dying, dysphemistic, earthy, easy, economic, economic cycle,
economic expansion, economic growth, economy, evil, execrable, expanding economy,
expansion, expiring, face value, facing
death, faint, faintly, fallen, feeble, feebly, feeling low, few, fixed price, flagitious, flagrant, flash price, flat, flurry, flutter, footling, foul, frank, freewheel, front, frugal, fulsome, gear, gear train, gearbox, gearing, gearshift, gearwheel, gentle, gently, give tongue, give voice,
given up, glide, glossal, glottal, going, graceless, grave, gross, growth, gutter, guttural, half-heard, hard, harsh, heartless, heavy, heinous, high, high growth rate,
high-pressure area, hollow, homely, hopeless, howl, humble, humble-looking,
humble-visaged, humblest, hushedly, hypochondriac, hypochondriacal,
ignoble, impoverished, improper, impure, in articulo mortis, in
bad taste, in extremis, in low spirits, in the depths, in the
doldrums, in the dumps, in the shade, incapable of life, inconcinnate, inconcinnous, inconsequential,
inconsiderable,
incorrect, indecorous, indigent, indignant, indisposed, indistinct, inelegant, inexpensive, infamous, infelicitous, inferior, infra dig, inglorious, iniquitous, innocuous, insignificant, instantaneous, intermediate, intonated, isobar, isometric, isometric line,
isopiestic line, isotherm, isothermal line,
issue par, issue price, junior, knavish, knee-high, knocked
flat, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, laid low,
languishing,
lateral, lax, least, less, lesser, light, lingual, liquid, little, low-built, low-down,
low-hung, low-level, low-leveled, low-lying, low-minded,
low-pitched, low-pressure area, low-priced, low-set, low-spirited,
low-statured, lowborn,
lowbred, lower, lowered, lowest, lowliest, lowly, lumpen, manageable, mangy, market expansion, market
price, market value, meager, mean, measly, meow, mew, mewl, miaow, mid, miniature, minor, miserable, moderate, modest, monophthongal, monstrous, moo, moribund, murmured, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, naughty, neap, near death, needy, nefarious, negligible, neigh, nether, neutral, nicker, no great shakes, nominal, nominal value, nonclerical, nonviable, obnoxious, occluded front,
occlusive, odious, offering price, open, opening price, opposed, opposing, ordinary, outlandish, overdrive, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, paltry, par, par value, parity, peak, peaking, peccant, penurious, pessimistic, petty, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pianissimo, piano, picayune, picayunish, pining, pitch, pitched, plain, plebeian, poky, polar front, poor, posttonic, price, prone, prosperity, prostrate, pule, put price, quotation, quoted price,
rack, rally, rank, raw, reasonable, recession, recovery, recumbent, reduced, reprehensible, reprobate, reptilian, retroflex, reverse, roar, rough, rounded, rude, runty, scabby, scandalous, scarcely heard,
screak, scream, screech, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, second rank, second
string, secondary,
semivowel, sensible, sepulchral, servile, settling price,
shabby, shabby-genteel,
shallow, shameful, shoddy, short, short and sweet, simple, sinful, sinking, skin-deep, slashed, slipping, slipping away,
slowdown, slump, small, soft, soft-sounding, soft-voiced,
softly, sonant, sordamente, sordid, sordo, sorry, spiritless, squalid, squall, squall line, squat, squatty, squeak, squeal, standard transmission,
stated value, stationary front, stick shift, stooped, stopped, stressed, strong, stumpy, sub, subaltern, subaudible, subdued, subduedly, subjacent, subject, submerged, subordinate, subservient, succinct, suicidal, summary, sunk, sunken, superficial, supine, surd, swings, syllabic, synchromesh, synoptic, tasteless, teachable, tense, terminal, thick, third rank, third string,
third-estate, throaty,
tiny, token, tonal, tonic, transient, transmission, trifling, trivial, troat, turned-off, twangy, ululate, unaccented, unappreciative, unapproving, unclear, uncomplimentary,
uncourtly, uncouth, under, underprivileged,
undignified,
undistinguished,
unelevated, uneuphonious, unexpensive, unfavorable, unfelicitous, unforgivable, ungenteel, ungraceful, unhappy, unimportant, unmentionable, unpardonable, unpolished, unpretentious, unrefined, unrounded, unseemly, unspeakable, unstressed, unwashed, unworthy, upturn, velar, vicious, vile, villainous, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, vulgar, wail, warm front, weak, weak-voiced, weakly, weary of life, weather
map, whicker, whine, whinny, whispered, wicked, wide, wind-shift line, within
means, woebegone,
woeful, world-weary,
worth the money, wretched, wrong, yap, yawl, yawp, yelp, yip, yowl